About Us

Central University of Tamil Nadu

 The Central University of Tamil Nadu is set in Tiruvarur, a region of cultural and historical significance. The University functions with quality infrastructure facilities in two campuses set in a serene atmosphere in the Neelakudi and Nagakudi villages in the Cauvery delta region. In-spite of the recent origin and a humble beginning with a single course and few students, the University has established itself in different streams of education within the last two few years, attracting students from far and wide. The University offers Postgraduate, Integrated MSc and Doctoral Programmes in various subjects through the Schools of Social Sciences & Humanities, Basic & Applied Sciences, Mathematics & Computer Sciences, Communication,Education & Training, Behavioral Sciences, Commerce and Business Management, Technology, Performing Arts & Fine Arts, Earth Sciences, and Life Sciences. The University atmosphere offers a creative and multicultural learning atmosphere for the students with dynamic curricular and extracurricular activities. The University also opens up space for expert learning through collaboration with State and National level institutions of academic excellence. The University which functions in a rural setting also caters to the development of the rural locales by providing quality education and training to those from the marginalized communities 

Central Library 

The University Library was established in the year 2009 and it serves the students, faculty members and staff of the university. The library has a collection of about 38,000 books. Of these, more than 4,500 books are reference books (Handbooks, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, and coloured atlases, etc.) and the rest are Textbooks and General books. Besides these, the library also has CDs/DVDs and subscribes to 130 print journals. The library has been actively interacting with teaching departments and faculty and a pro-active approach to building an essential collection of resources for new programmes being introduced by the various departments have been adopted. It facilitates the access to more than 10,000 online electronic journals through UGC - e-ShodhSindhu, J-Gate, SciFinder, EBSCO, SCOPUS, IOP Publishing, ScienceDirect, IEEE-CSDL, Royal Society of Chemistry and others. The IndiaStat.com database also subscribed for the benefit of faculty, researchers and students in social sciences. The library is fully automated having an online catalogue that can be easily accessed by the users. The library implemented Koha - an open source software package which is an integrated library management system that supports all housekeeping operations of the library. Recently RFID and CCTV security systems are implemented. There is a separate digital library center having 30 computers running on high speed internet. Urkund & iThendicate Anti-Plagiarism Software access are added by Central Library to check the theses and other publications for the benefit of faculty and students. The library is providing comfortable, user friendly environment for learning and dissemination of knowledge and information.